Philip Grobler

Fracking is a massive backwards step, & not something we want.

Useful insights:
reports.electricinsights.co.uk/q4-2024/why-...

A life well lived.

“math” 🤔
(runs for cover)

"This asymmetry in resource is incredibly important. It directly shapes who gets heard, who gets paid to be heard and who can keep speaking after the algorithm turns against them."

Nazis ban comedians shock.. NYT, 4 Feb 1939

New extended definition of Remote Control @newyorker.com new issue

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.”

Nailed it.

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration on.ft.com/46p3BPl

When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?"

So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵

Right to swim and wild camp in England should be enshrined in law, Labour MPs say Report from group of MPs calls for broader access to rivers, woodlands and fields to improve connection with nature Swimming and wild camping should be a right for all people to enjoy in the English countryside, Labour MPs have said. They are calling for access to nature to be increased and legal rights to enjoy the countryside in a report from the all-party parliamentary group for outdoor recreation and access to nature. Continue reading...

Right to swim and wild camp in England should be enshrined in law, Labour MPs say

In my old London parish of Plumstead, a few flags have been graffitied here and there, and the good parishioners have turned them into Battenburg cakes by colouring in the squares yellow and pink. I call it the Battenburg resistance. Nice one. #standuptoracism #battenburgresistance

Turning flags into battenburg - could this be the solution?

Battenburg is both patriotic, whilst also kind and reassuring!

#MoreCake #BeKind

A classic

South Africa to reopen Steve Biko inquest 48 years after death in police custody Death of anti-apartheid activist in 1977 after police beat him into a coma sparked outrage across the world

This is good. I hope there is finally justice for Steve Biko.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself

"We will never know what diseases might have been cured or what advances in technology might have been invented had the lights not gone out in the labs."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

Ben Jennings on wildfires and summer holidays – cartoon Intense heat has been affecting many communities across southern Europe, with wildfires breaking out in Spain, Italy and France

Ben Jennings on wildfires and summer holidays – cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it?
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Warnings From Weimar Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.

Peter Jukes
“This is the enduring lesson of Weimar: extremism never triumphs on its own. It succeeds because others enable it—because of their ambition, because of their fear, or because they misjudge the dangers of small concessions”. www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...

Solar panels are basically wireless receivers for a nuclear fusion power plant.

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

Wow. Check this out.
Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot!
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

My Prospect piece yesterday set out how a illiberal radical government with a firm majority and competent advisers could easily abuse the UK constitution - and that the UK more vulnerable to this than US.

But.

This sort of warning is not new. It has been over a hundred years in the making.

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The world's largest sand battery just went live in Finland Finland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over heating duties from an old woodchip power plant for the municipality. It's s...

Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week.
newatlas.com/energy/large...

They should ALWAYS ask him what Russia AND America agreed in the Budapest Memorandum and then enquire why anyone would take either of them seriously now?

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.